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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Tori Amos

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

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